Michele Good is our Elkins office's legal assistant, and she goes above and beyond every day. She is an experienced attorney, and a former Circuit Court Judge, and Magistrate, so not only is she a friendly face for clients but an invaluable mentor and cheerleader for staff.

Faith's ex took their daughter and moved, all the while sending messages he was teaching her to forget about Faith. Every time they found an address, he would move and slip through their fingers again, until one day, his carelessness caught up with him.

Julia and her two young children endured mold, a collapsing roof, and then finally a long winter waiting for their landlord to install a heating system. Constantly buying propane for space heaters was causing this single mom to run low on money, and unfulfilled promises from the landlord were draining her patience. She turned to Legal Aid for help

Just last month, LAWV's Access to Services Manager Kate White was asked to speak at the National Legal Services Corporation board meeting on an innovative service delivery program started in Charleston's West Side neighborhood.